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Althea
 Post subject: Re: The Mail vs Benefits
PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:14 am 
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Well done, Malc, you've managed to completely ignore my last post.

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Malcolm Armsteen
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Well done, Malc, you've managed to completely ignore my last post.


What? The anecdotal one?
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Althea
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What? The anecdotal one?

Basically. You clearly missed the part where I said I didn't think you were wrong, but that I had felt masses of pressure to go to university.

Because, you know, you weren't at my high school or sixth form, so you can't really suggest otherwise.

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George Tait
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Well, I worked myself up into a rage twice during the last seven days. After reading about Cameron's plans for under 25s and housing benefit, I wanted to set a match to the newspaper bins in Sainsburys. What a cunt that man is. But the red mists really descended after reading the transcript of Ed Milliband's speech about immigration. When both leaders of our two major parties think there is nothing immoral about pandering to the likes of the Daily fucking Mail, we have a problem.

Oh, and if you want to find out what speeches like Milliband's lead to, have a gander at Libby Purves's opportunistic piece of rubbish in today's Times.
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High school? Are we adopting that Murrikan term now?

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High school? Are we adopting that Murrikan term now?

There are High Schools in this country. Usually (always?) private eg Eggy High aka Edgbaston High School for Girls which my big sister attended from 1967-1973.

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Andy McDandy
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Haybridge High School in my neck of the woods was called that back in the 80s. It's not unknown.

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Not unknown,but not common. Bloody Murrikan cultural imperialism again.

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George Tait
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Andy McDandy wrote:
Haybridge High School in my neck of the woods was called that back in the 80s. It's not unknown.



Mine was called Royal High. in the 80s. In Scotland.

So probably not uncommon at all.
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For me, at least, secondary and high seemed to be interchangeable.

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For me, at least, secondary and high seemed to be interchangeable.

No.
Secondary is generic to all [/ahem] secondary education, be it comprehensive, academy, grammar or private. In England & Wales a school is only called a "High" school if it chooses to include the word in it's name. In Scotland (where the term originated) it is much more commonplace but I'm not sure what the distinction is.

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They just like things starting with 'High'. High school, High tea, High Bernian... :D

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George Tait wrote:
Andy McDandy wrote:
Haybridge High School in my neck of the woods was called that back in the 80s. It's not unknown.



Mine was called Royal High. in the 80s. In Scotland.

So probably not uncommon at all.


Well, mine wasn't. In Scotland. In the 70s. So probably not common at all.

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Abernathy wrote:
George Tait wrote:
Andy McDandy wrote:
Haybridge High School in my neck of the woods was called that back in the 80s. It's not unknown.



Mine was called Royal High. in the 80s. In Scotland.

So probably not uncommon at all.


Well, mine wasn't. In Scotland. In the 70s. So probably not common at all.

From the Althea (High) School of reasoning. :wink:

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Well, mine wasn't. In Scotland. In the 70s. So probably not common at all.

From the Althea (High) School of reasoning. :wink:


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